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TIL that drug use in video games is classified under the same regulations as child porn for Australian Customs

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LkkQ TIL: There is a $20,000 home theater device offered by Prima Cinema, which automatically sends Hollywood films to customers’ home systems the day they premiere.
ADdgg TIL The Chicxulub asteroid impact that killed off the dinosaurs approximately 66 million years ago is theorized to have generated a megatsunami that reached 2.9 miles (4.6 km or 15,312 ft.) in height or more than 5.5x the height of the Burj Khalifa (2,722 ft.) out in the open ocean.
oBnLE TIL in 1942 in a German POW camp north of Toronto the prisoners rebelled using pipes and sticks and were subdued by a group of baseball bat weilding Canadians. The Battle of Bowmanville.
rN7jW TIL that the fiction planet of Tatooine in Star Wars was named after the city of Tataouine in Tunisia, where the Tatooine scenes were filmed.
e07RD TIL in 2004 while searching the Paris Catacombs police discovered a cinema in one of the caverns. It was equipped with a giant screen, seats for the audience, a fully stocked bar, and a complete restaurant. The source of its electrical power and the identity of those responsible remain unknown